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Title The mythologizing of Mark Twain / edited by Sara de Saussure Davis and Philip D. Beidler
Published [Tuscaloosa, Alabama] : University of Alabama Press, 1984
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Description 1 online resource (207 pages) : illustrations
Contents List of Illustrations; Introduction / Sara deSaussure Davis; Part I: America Mythologizes Twain; Collecting the Works of Mark Twain / John C. Gerber; ""Norman Rockwell Sentimentality"": The Rockwell Illustrations for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn / Allison R. Ensor; Part II: Twain Mythologizes Twain; Autobiography as Property: Mark Twain and His Legend / Alan Gribben; Mark Twain, ""Funniest Man in the World"" / Henry Nash Smith; A ""Talent for Posturing"": The Achievement of Mark Twain's Public Personality / Louis J. Budd; Life on the Mississippi Revisited / James M. Cox
Part III: Twain Mythologizes America and the UniverseMark Twain and the Myth of the West / Harold H. Kolb, Jr.; Mark Twain and the Myth of the Daring Jest / Stanley Brodwin; Notes; Contributors; Index
Summary Readers of Mark Twain seldom doubt his genius, but defining that genius and locating its source continue to challenge students of American literature. Equally elusive is an explanation of the intriguing phenomenon of Twain as a mythic figure, both shaper and embodier of an American mythos. Perhaps no single critical approach can adequately assess the complex force behind Samuel Clemens and Mark Twain. This native genius, our quintessential artist, rightfully provokes a number of powerful responses, as these original essays demonstrate
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses
SUBJECT Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 fast
Subject Humorous stories, American -- History and criticism -- Congresses
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Humorous stories, American
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Davis, Sara deSaussure, editor
Beidler, Philip D., editor
ISBN 9780817388614
0817388613